Gun used in suicide

Ascribing the gun an emotional value based on the actions of another person is getting dangerously close to the mindset that foments the "guns cause crime" mantra of the anti's. You have to remove the object from the action.

Yes, there is an emotional aspect to your dilemma. In the end the gun is still just a gun. Your decision should be based on the effect it will have on your relationship with the people invovled, not the object used.

Brad

well said brad

Why not? The gun didn't do anything wrong...

It's just the history of the weapon. I have a S&W revolver that was carried for a long time by a trooper in my area, I don't know anything else about it. It's just a story the weapon is a part of, you probably shouldn't tell everyone and their mother about the incident because many will think you are an asshat, or that you are reveling in the sad history of the weapon, and you don't want that.

I would buy it, and treat it the same way as all my other guns. With love and respect.

if you have any reservations, pass. objects have the memories we associate with them. It might not be a reminder for you, but maybe of that person you know. If it was someone with whom you had little or no contact, then yea I'd pick it up- but not if its someone who may have to be reminded constantly of tragedy.

I think this is the kind of thing an individual has to decide for themself. A very dynamic situation.

That being said, I would have bought it by now! It depends on what guns mean to you, I suppose, but I'm not the type that has ever named a gun or anything. They're tools, nothing more, and this one merely has the history of proving that it can throw a bullet out the end and damage whatever the bullet hits, just as I would expect, just like you'd expect a saw to be able to cut through lumber if you push it back and forth.

At the same time, some things have more personality to me because they're inherently more personal, however, I don't think there is anything that you can buy that you can't develop more of your own history with than the small amount of it's history that you knew about when you bought it.

I think this bothers you at some level else you would not have posted this here.

At least you know it works

Would I buy it? Almost certainly. If owning a "suicide gun" began to bother me, I would then trade it off for something without that stigma (and I would refrain from mentioning its history- there's no requirement to do so), and you would very likely at least get your money back out of it.

i would buy it .... its an dead object like any other tool.

What does your gut tell you?

If you think it might be a 'Tell tale heart' kind of thing then pass it up.
Many wouldn't have a problem as it is just an object.

I have the gun that my best friend used. It's not a problem. In fact, oddly enough, I'm glad I do have it.

Superstition is the religion of the weak-minded

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+1. That sums up how I feel about suicide guns. In fact I would really love to have the PPK that Hitler used.

+1 on what Brad said.

Hrmmm, how weird am I that the notion of a "haunted gun" has a sort of "cachet" to me much like a haunted house has for others.

Then again we are rapidly approaching Halloween so I'm just in that frame of "spooky BOO" mindset anyway <grin>.

Would you use a hammer somebody else hit thier thumb with? Its just a tool.

I sold a 44 spl (Bulldog) to a guy who used it, but he was a bad shot and he survived, his kids wanted to sell it back to me for a 38 spl, said it was to hard to shoot

The guy shot himself in the chest with it, and it only hit his lung went through him, the sofa and then stuck into the hardwood floor.

They wanted to sue me LOL...I followed all the rules of engagement, what was crummy about it, was the guy was being driven nuts by the kids and wife...

They finally decided to keep the gun (police)

Fact is stranger than fiction...

Would I buy or own one...No, should be destroyed "Evil Karma"

As stated above, its a tool and the only thing it can do is what you make it do.

Think of it this way:

Although the gun may have been used as an instrument to commit suicide, now it can be used as a tool to serve a better purpose.

Monitary concerns come first. I would buy it( smoking deal). If it bothered me after the fact I would sell it and make money.

history is history

How many here have an old house in which the history is uncertain?
or restoring an old Chevy that just happend to have been used in a suicide
20 yrs ago, someone ran in a garage to kill themselves?

Would that matter?

Their free will does not concern me until they try to impose on my free will.
I am no mans keeper.

A tool is a tool. Leave it at that.

Maybe it's haunted in some sort of good way.

DH has a .44 magnum that was used in two range rental suicides. It was quite cheap, and has been proven very effective on deer.